The
legendary juggling genius
Michael Moschen lecturing about
the creative process and how he
comes up with his unique
routines. The exclusive lecture
took place on April 30 at the
Wonderfun Shop in Pompton Lakes,
New Jersey. (5/5/12: A MagicTimes photo).

Gary Ross, 'Houdini': Director Lands
Project With Summit After Turning Down
'Hunger Games' Sequel - Huffington Post
Turns out directing "The Hunger Games"
won't be the last thing Gary Ross ever
does. THR reports he's in negotiations
to helm "Houdini" for Summit. The film
is based on The Secret Life of Houdini:
The Making of America's First Superhero,
a biography of the magician by William
Kalush and Larry Sloman -- a book that
drew controversy for intimating that
Houdini was a spy for the Secret Service
and Britain. Noah Oppenheim wrote the
screenplay....
Publ.Date : 2012-05-02T19:37:24Z

Magician goes to Japanese prison in
'Locked Up Abroad' - Examiner
Mark Greening tells his story in "Locked
Up Abroad: The Juggler Smuggler,"
Greening was a carefree magician in Bali
when he met a Japanese woman who later
told him that she was pregnant with his
child. Greening flew to Japan to marry
her, but found out that Tokyo was
expensive. He found what seemed to be a
lucrative business dealing hash, and
started traveling back and forth to
Nepal to pick up the drugs. ..
Publ.Date : 2012-05-02T07:20:06Z

Little magician charms everyone -
deccanchronicle.com
From making money out of paper and a
flower bloom out of a stick,
eight-year-old V.N. Lucshun, has many
tricks up his sleeves. A student of
Class 3, he is already a class act and
knows how to keep his audience on the
edge with his magic tricks. Lucshun’s
love for magic started when his parents
took him for his first magic show. And
he went for many, said his mother, H.
Nalini. “Almost every time he would come
back really intrigued with what he had
witnessed. He became so engrossed in
wanting to learn those tricks that we
had to look for someone to teach him
magic. After a little search we found a
magician by the name of Veerashekar, who
also runs a dance school....
Publ.Date : 2012-05-03T11:22:18Z

Federal gigs are no hocus pocus,
magician says - Politico.com
Eric Henning of Laurel, Md., for
instance, is a professional magician and
motivational speaker who’s performed at
all sorts at government events: He’s
worked both the Bush and Obama White
Houses, National Christmas Tree
lightings, Easter egg rolls and the
surgeon general’s ball. Henning
regularly appears at the White House
Communications Agency’s holiday party.
He’s even performed for the National
Security Agency. “When people think of
magicians they think of guys in Vegas
with boxes and tigers or some guy at
your kid’s birthday party, and that
seems frivolous,” Henning said in an
interview. “I assure you it’s not.”
“There are things that magicians know
that can help,” he said. “Magicians are
professional communicators. I mean, who
better to communicate an abstract
concept than a magician? We’re trying to
convince people of impossibilities every
single day.”...
Publ.Date : 2012-05-04T01:19:49Z